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A style of painting, sculpture, or other imitative art, which illustrates everyday life and manners.

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Art 76% connected

The second person singular, indicative mode, present tense, of the substantive verb Be; but formed after the analogy of the plural are, with the endi…

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form 76% connected

A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.

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Kind 76% connected

Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.

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Sort 76% connected

Chance; lot; destiny.

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Style 76% connected

An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded,…

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Variety 76% connected

The quality or state of being various; intermixture or succession of different things; diversity; multifariousness.

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Drama 76% connected

A composition, in prose or poetry, accommodated to action, and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to depict a series of grave or humorou…

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form 76% connected

A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.

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Landscape 76% connected

A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains.

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Modernism 76% connected

Modern practice; a thing of recent date; esp., a modern usage or mode of expression.

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Poesy 76% connected

The art of composing poems; poetical skill or faculty; as, the heavenly gift of poesy.

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Poetry 76% connected

The art of apprehending and interpreting ideas by the faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in expression.

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Prose 76% connected

The ordinary language of men in speaking or writing; language not cast in poetical measure or rhythm; -- contradistinguished from verse, or metrical…

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Satire 76% connected

A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves re…

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Verse 76% connected

A line consisting of a certain number of metrical feet (see Foot, n., 9) disposed according to metrical rules.

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